I believe this would be a wonderful study. Behaviroal weight programs lead
to a 20% weight reduction but the maintence is a problem:

Drew A. Anderson, Angela M. Simmons and Suzanne M. Milnes (2005):
Interventions For Weight Reduction: Facing the Maintenance Problem - IJBCT,
1.(4), Page 276 www.behavior-analyst-online.org


Anderson, D. A., Shapiro, J. R., & Lundgren J. D. (2001) The Behavioral
Treatment of Obesity. The Behavior Analyst Today, 2 (2), 133
www.behavior-analyst-online.org

So a behavioral development model is really needed. As for IV, I think that
you could set up a coding system like wieght watchers and score it over the
course of the day. Although this would take alot of time.


Joe

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Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: [B-fit] San Diego / Possible help


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> Hello HSF members,
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> This is my first posting being apart of this community, and I have
> many questions and ideas I would like to share.
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> The article by Flemming on Behavior Analysis in obesity assessment and
> Intervention... can that be found in JABA or another published journal?
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> I am interested in starting a study which looks at parents of children
> with autism, who are lower functioning and obese. The study would
> focus on if the parents would reinforce negative behavior by feeding
> or giving into the child's requests i.e. tangible items. I am still
> doing research on this topic, by reading published articles in JABA, I
> was hoping that we can start a discussion on this, or I could get a
> little help, focusing on the specific IV and the DV.
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> For San Diego, I would love to teach a Martial Arts class. I want to
> see if anyone has interest in teaching the event before I signed up
> for it.
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> I hope this finds everyone well, and have a wonderful rest of the
> weekend.
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> Thank you,
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> Frank Buono
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